Presider: Pastor James
Congregational Prayer: Pastor James
Sermon: Pastor James

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Call to Worship

Whom have I in heaven but you?
   And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
   but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;
   you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
But for me it is good to be near God;
   I have made the Lord God my refuge,
   that I may tell of all your works.

‍—Ps. 73:25-28

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Hymn of Adoration

Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All— Trinity Hymnal 658

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Responsive Reading

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

-Rom. 6:1-14

‍‍Hymn of Assurance

He was Wounded for Our Transgression— Trinity Hymnal 244

Children's Catechism

Q60. why must you hate and forsake your sin?

A. Because sin displeases God.

‍Scripture Reading & Sermon‍

Phil. 121-26: "You Cannot Lose!" -Pastor James

Hymn of Gratitude

Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground— Trinity Hmynal 518

Doxology

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